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The London Buzz – 5th February 2025

05-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Hounslow Council is planning to resume the use of a controversial weedkiller that some believe causes significant environmental damage and cancer risk. Chiswick W4
Residents of blocks in Thamesmead blighted by unsafe cladding jeered Greenwich councillors as a watered-down motion on fire safety was passed amid shambolic scenes in Woolwich Town Hall. The Greenwich Wire
Map shows London cycle routes ‘socially unsafe’ in dark for women Metro
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Leyton tube station upgrade to start this month

05-02-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Leyton tube station’s long-planned upgrade to enlarge the ticket office and add step-free access will begin later this month.
CGI view of the new entrance (c) TfL / Planning Documents
At the moment, Leyton station’s entrance is little more than a shed above tracks type of tube station in need of refurbishment, but is also overcrowded during the rush hours. The overcrowding can result in queues in the morning building up outside the station, where the pavement is quite narrow. In the

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100 objects for 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum

05-02-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

To mark 100 years since an unassuming house in Bloomsbury was saved from being turned into a hotel — and became the Charles Dickens Museum, the museum has displayed a hundred of its treasures.The museum at 48 Doughty Street is where Charles Dickens wrote the stories that made him an international superstar. The building was threatened with redevelopment into a hotel but was saved when the Dickens Fellowship secured an option to buy it in June 1922 and then raised the £10,000 mortgage

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Take a look inside the Barbican’s boiler room before the Big Upgrade

05-02-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

When the Barbican Art Centre was being constructed in the late 1970s, a boiler room was needed to provide all the mechanicals for the building, but soon, a lot of that 40+ year old equipment is to be stripped out.Down several flights of stairs, through an unmarked door into a staff corridor, you come to a locked door that takes you into the beating heart of the Barbican — a huge boiler room.
Barring some upgrades as needed, most of the equipment down here dates back to when the art centre

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Visit the GBBO film set for Welford Park’s annual snowdrops display

05-02-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A normally private garden that millions of people see each year when a large white tent is erected in the middle is currently open to the public to visit. This is Welford Park, which you might not have heard of but will recognise when I mention that it’s where the Great British Bake Off is filmed.
For the past years, a large white tent has been erected in front of the house for the summer, and each weekend, a shrinking group of amateur bakers seek the Star Baker prize or even a coveted han

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